The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-07-30
ruE SENTINEL AM THE fAhMEhs'
ALLIANCE.
1nthe Editars Of tie Gazette.

ina lrFtttIAtIA - 49,
last issue in a tone ~ 'uIa
ed innocence os
and arduous service devoted 20
The interest of the farmers Vi 'ne
county, and proceeds with an llisso
facts as plain as the horns Oh we ia.
FAM moon there seems to be an eiloft
or desire 10 use the influence OF the
Alliance. which we welcomed IN t'ie
ranks now at work for the farmers
interest, against US, and for what
That the Sentinel has given The laf-
mers much good advice during It's
n.raer will be conceded. That any
journal published in an agricultusal
community, designed to DC read py
farmers, and SUPPORTED largely "
advertisements in It's coiumns VI
merchandise that must he purchased
by farmers, if purchased at all, could
he SO rash as to antagonize them, or
so stupid az to fail to cultivate their
friendship 10 a proposition too absurd
70 be considered, we may therefore
without questioning the motive, con-
cede what IL claims to have done "a
advance the interests Of its rural
readers.
But the claim that II has ever well
coined the Alliance as an ofganlza-
ton cannot be sustained by a search
through its "musty files
; When about tile 28th of April a
County Farmers Alliance was organ
ized in the town of Grenada, in which
six subordinate Alliances were
>runresepted. the Sentinel allud-
Id to the days proceedings
I'm An unlntelligible jargon OF
words, which if not intended to
beIittle and ridicule the Alliance,
ievinced a stupidity ineXcusable even
lin a journal Of its small pretensloiis,
and since that time until after the
convention lift ever deigned to notice
that order at all excepting IN the
article which it claims saved the
Democratic party and the Alliance,
cannot now call it to mind.
NThe idea that any effort is being
made to use the influence of the Al
lance against the Sentinel is the pro-
duct of its imagination superinduced
perhaps by consciousness OF its de-
serts in the premises. The cause as
signed by the Sentinel for such I'M
agined unfriendly influence is "in-
diting an earnest and solemn appeal
in favor of the unity and power aud
as%cendannc,y OF the Democratic par
ty," etc. The appeal to the FARMERS,
merchants, lawyers and doctors" by
which the above sentence is intro
duced may in part be successful as to
the merchants, lawyers and doctors,
but that paper need not clay the flat
tering unctlon to its soul" that II will
be able to prejudice the farmers
against the only power that promises
deliverance from the many burdens
he has SO long borne.
The intimation that the Alliance
has antagonized, or intended to an
tagonize The Democratic party or it's
principles 10 not borne out by the
facts. On the contrary, the leading
idea with the members of that organ
ization. as far the writer is aware is
that no organization can take the
place of the Democratic party in up
holding aud promoting the agricul-
tural interest of the country. They
are Democrats and in full accord
with the main principles of Democ-
racy. No other class composing that
party are more buidened by the tar
if taxation, and no other class are
more earnest in demanding reduction
of taxation and tariff for revenue
only. No member of the Alliance
can hope, out of the farming pop
ulation alone, to build up u party that
will be more powerful than a party
embracing this together with every
other class. The Democratic party
commends itself to them in being
strengthened and cemented by the
accumulated experience and wisdom
of a century and being now in power
it promises to be the medium through
which shall be accomplished the poll
itical reforms demanded alike by the
Alliance and every voter In sympa-
Thy with agriculture.
The Sentinel further says: but
to save the Alliance from a fearful
| mistake which ne thought they mere
| obom to naake." This, Mr.. Editor, is
the milk in the cocoanut. This ac-
| counts for the silent contempt with
WIlCll ulIc AltluuSC was tCuICu Wy
| that paper. This accounts for the
malignity that prompted the charge
that the Alliance was raising hell IN
the county, and made desirable "a rep.
etition OF the hell OF Price and Kelly
rule. Doubtless the Sentinel was in
full sympathy with such expressions
of opposition when it sent out the ar
ticle that saved the Democratic party
from slight injury, aud the Alliance
from being crippled.
1t shows that the political trick
sters looked with foul suspicion anc
apprehension on the Alliance from
It's introduction in this county
Whether this suspicion Was born of I
consciousness Of 4 corrupt maliipula
ton Of the party machinery and con
segment fear Of reform, will be left t.
the judgment Of the reader. But Ger
tain it is that no thought Of opposition
to the Democratic party ever fount
expression many Alliance the write
was ever amor do | believe that All.
member Of that order ever dreamed
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